Speech Function and Mood Analysis of An Interview Between Sarah Sechan and Shane Filan on `Sarah Sechan Talk Show` - UDiNus Repository

CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1

Background of the Study
Various kinds of technology and information in this era of globalization

creates a community that is intelligent and responsive to the situation around
nowadays. The development of information technology and communication does
not only educate the society, but also helps them to complete all the tasks, jobs,
study they have. This era is characterized by various inventions of advanced
technology in communicating, such as the discovery communications equipment
as telephone, radio, television, internet, and others that cause the information is
delivered spread out easily, quickly, regardless the different space and time.
Media is increasingly playing a role as a channel of information in both
community life outside and domestic area. Among the various mass media that
exist, television media is one which is effective in delivering the audio shaped
message. Television provides information and human needs through displaying
programs consists news, drama, entertainment, and others. The development of
television program in Indonesia is so big. It encourages television companies to
create a variety show of Television programs in order to compete with other

television stations.
A variety show of television program that is very loved by viewers are
talk show programs. Talkshow is a television program or radio where a person or
groups sit together to discuss various topics with a relaxed but serious
atmosphere, and is guided by a moderator. Almost all TV stations have a talk
show program as a flagship program, such as Talkshow Sarah Sechan on Net. Net
Tv presents an interesting talk show program called Sarah Sechan TalkShow. It is
an event program aims to provide inspiration, spread positive vibe, generates
motivation, gives information, and brings entertainment to people who are
watching

Sarah

Sechan's

program.

Based

on

https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Sechan The Sarah Sechan Talk show often

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refer ed to si ply as “a ah s show that is aired nationally since May, 27th 2013.
The show has been highly influential. Sarah has used the show as educational
platform, featuring interviews, twitter trend topic, self improvement segments,
etc. The talkshow was hosted by Sarah Sechan on October, 3rd 2013 and had a
guest star, Shane Filan, the ex-Westlife boy band member.
To add information about the reason why this research took Sarah
Sechan Talk show whose attended by Shane Filan, it is better to know a little bit
about the show. According to https://www.kpi.go.id, Sarah Sechan was ever
rewarded by Indonesia Broadcasting Commission (KPI) in 2014 as one of the Best
Nomination Presenters of the Talkshow, and in 2015 She was rewarded by
Indonesia Broadcasting Commission as the Best Winner Presenter Woman for
talkshow category. She is smart and high quality host in Indonesia. Indonesia
Broadcasting Commission or Komisi Penyiaran Indonesia (KPI) is well known as an

Independent regulatory Institution that ensures all stakeholders of broadcast
media in Indonesia is providing entertainment program which is not only fun, but
also must educates and brings peace all the time and beneficial for people. In
certain terms, KPI or Indonesia Broadcasting Commission gives award as
appreciation to television and radio programs which had followed the
broadcasting rules of KPI. The episode of Sarah and Shane interview was so
special. It encouraged audience at home and studio to keep staying positive in
facing the problem of life.
In Sarah Sechan talk show, the spoken language as a system of
communication, and means for delivering message is applied well in real life. Talk
show is an example of dialogue between two persons or more which provides
people to express what is in their head about something through communicating
it into language. It is intense, deep, and close as personally that describes the
speake s roles and attitudes. The dialogue like this is typically called as a casual
conversation which performs an informal interaction contains with humor
(Eggins and slade, 1997: 20).

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When people can take part in a dialogue or in a casual conversation,

then, it means they can negotiate and build the exchange of interpersonal
meanings and realize social relations with other language users. It reflects the
intimacy and interpersonal differences of the speakers. It is not easy indeed
talking personally with someone who has just meet for the first time like Sarah
Sechan and Shane Filan. There will be an ackward moment, silence in second,
interrupting, giving turn, etc. However, Sarah as a good host can conduct the
conversation to be as enjoy as it seems in the video. The part of Sarah Sechan
interview that may draw this statement is as this following:

No

Speaker

Utterances

1. Shane

2. Sarah

Speech Function

(i) all right

Acceptance

(ii) can I have one of this?

Question

(i) Yeah

Answer

(ii) I made this myself?

Statement

Shane: all right,

- elliptical declarative

can I have one of this?
Sarah : Yeah,
I

ade this

– polar interrogative
- elliptical declarative

yself

– full declarative

Both are laughi g…..
(Sarah Sechan Talk Show, 10:29)
The first speech function applied above is

uestio

which is used by

Shane to demand goods or information from Sarah whether he can eat some
chocolate or not. The utte a ce can I have one of this? show that Shane asked
some permition from Sarah. The second speech function is state e t which is
used by Sarah to give information to Shane. The utte a ce Yeah, I made this

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yself means that Sarah gives information to Shane that he can eat the
chocolate and it was made by herself.
From the interview utterances above, it can be seen that there is
exchanging of goods happened in the utterances. It begins first from Shane
utterances. He asked for some chocolate in front of him. His demanding speech
function effects “a ah s eactio . “he espo ded it hu o ously with a joke.
Instead of being cold, and distance space interview, Sarah and Shane make a fun
conversation. This kind pattern of mood and speech function can illustrate how
to negotiate and construct conversational structure well to make attractive and
interesting interview with other people; of course, it should be connected to the
context.

The expression in utterances of the conversation is applied on purpose.
Whenever people use language, there is always something else going on, either
in order to the way how people should hold a good conversation, or how they
should behave as smart speakers to avoid some rudeness, overlapping, or other
unexpected incidence. Construing language is always also enacting, that means
enacting the personal and social relationship with the other people around them.
Language construction may involve words, clause, and sentence. The clause of
the grammar is not only a figure, in fact it is the largest grammatical unit (Gerot
and Wignell, 1995: 82).
When language is used to exchange information, the clause takes on the
forms of proposition. People do not speak in sentences, yet they speak in
messages which form in clauses and clause complex that represent some
process, some doing or happening, saying, or sensing, being or having, together
with its various participants and circumstances. It is also called a proposition, or a
proposal, like an action to inform or give a question, gives an order, or makes an
offer, and express, or gives attitude towards whoever we are addressing and
what we are talking about. This kind of meaning language is more active; this is
language as a actio . It displays people s ole elatio ships with the othe s, a d

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how people attitudes to each other. This function of language here is called with
the interpersonal metafunction, to suggest that is both interactive and personal
(Halliday, 2014: 30), and the major interpersonal system of the clause is mood. It
provides intertancts involved in dialogue with the resources for giving or
demanding a commodity, either information or goods-&-services. Mood is the
pattern of clause type, whether it is an imperative, interrogative, or a declarative.
Based on mood of the clause, it is possible to know what role the speaker
performs during the conversation.
Related to interpersonal metafunction, in speech role, the speaker is not
only doing something for himself, he is also requiring something of the listener.
The most basic and necessary types of speech role, which is considered as the
more specific and are recognized, giving and demanding. Usually, a

act of

speaking is then something that might more appropriately be called as an
i te act . These kind of interact are matched by a set of desired response. It is an
exchange of information, in which giving implies receiving, while demanding
implies giving in response, as accepting an offer, carrying out a command,

acknowledging a statement and answering a question (Halliday, 2014: 135).
Exchanging information is more complicated than exchanging goods and services,
as in the beginning the listener is being asked not only to listen and do something
but also to act out a verbal role, like he asked to affirm or deny, or to supply a
missing piece of information.
Concerning to the facts above, the researcher is interested in analyzing
Speech Function and Mood Analysis of an Interview between Sarah Sechan and
Shane Filan on Sarah Sechan Talk Show because the researcher concerned about
the process of exchanging information happened in a live Talkshow, as Sarah
Sechan talkshow. The study tries to figure out the purpose of speech function
applied, and the effects of using mood types towards each other speakers
responds during interview on October 3rd 2013 at 7 pm that may also indicates
the intimacy of their relationships. In this research, the object in this study is all

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clauses that are used by the host, Sarah Sechan and the guest star, Shane Filan in
their utterances.

1.2

Statement of the Problem
This analysis was made to reveal mood and speech function found in the

interview of inspired talk show Sarah Sechan on Net Channel program. The
interview happened is between Sarah and the guest, Shane Filan. The limits on
the topics that will be discussed as follows:
1. What speech functions are used by Sarah Sechan and Shane Filan in
the interview under study?
2. What mood types are used by Sarah Sechan and Shane Filan in the
interview under study?
3. What are the dominant mood and speech functions used in the
interview under study?
4. What is the reason behind the use of mood and speech function in
the interview under study?
1.3

Scope of the Study
The researcher use speech function concept, and focus on mood theory

as well, stated by Halliday as its theoretical framework in the process of analyzing
the data which are commonly in spoken complex structure of clause and
sentence. The data are taken specifically from the sentence occurred in
Conversation of Sarah Sechan And Shane Filan on Sarah Sechan Talk Show. It is
which involved mood and speech function. The detail explanation about Speech
Function and Mood Analysis of an Interview between Sarah Sechan and Shane
Filan on Sarah Sechan Talk Show program will improve knowledge and further
information about speech function and mood applied in real spoken
conversation along with analyzing the purpose.

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1.4

Objective of the Study
The primary objects of this fundamental research has been stated to

obtain some knowledge of these following:
1. to describe speech functions used by Sarah Sechan and Shane Filan in
the interview under study
2. to explain mood types used by Sarah Sechan and Shane Filan in the
interview under study
3. to derive the dominant mood and speech functions used in the
interview under study
4. to know the reason behind the use of mood and speech function
under study.

1.5

Significance of the Study
The researcher expects that both researcher herself and readers can

acquired better understanding of English structures along with its function
through recognizing the SFL theory, context, coherence aspect. The study also
hopefully can provide the information that the relationship between the forms of
utterances and the types of meaning they express is a complex one which is
based on the principle that what speakers say can make sense in the context in
which they are saying it (Halliday, 1994: 95). Moreover, the researcher expects
that this research can help the next researchers, especially the students of Dian
Nuswantoro University Semarang, in analyzing mood and speech function.

1.6

Thesis Organization
The main part of this thesis consists of five chapters: Introduction,

Literary Review, Research Method, Discussion, and Conclusion. In this subsection the writer will describe briefly the contents of each chapter.
Chapter 1 : Introduction which consists of Background of the Study,
Statement of the Problem, Scope of the Study, Objective of the Study,
Significance of the Study, and Thesis Organization.

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Chapter 2 : Review of Related Literature which describes about previous
study that refers to similar topic alongside with their findings and the differences
towards this research, and also informs theories that are used to analyze data,
such as systemic functional grammar, mood, and speech functions.
Chapter 3 : Research Method which deals with methods that are used in
the study, including the type of research, the data sources, the unit of analysis,
the method of collecting data and the methods of analyzing data.
Chapter 4 : Finding and Discussion which displays the analysis of data. It
shows the result of analysis done by the research includes research finding and
discussion. It involves with the answers of the research questions and the
problem

e tio ed i sectio

scope of the study . This chapter conveys the

speech functions applied regarding the use of the mood and the dominant of it,
and its function in using it.
Chapter 5 : Conclusion and Suggestion. It presents the summary related
to the object that has been analyzed and suggestion for the next researcher.